Journal of Rural Studies

Article	Citations
Analyzing government role in rural tourism development: An empirical investigation from China	160
Digital transformation of agriculture and rural areas: A socio-cyber-physical system framework to support responsibilisation	149
The adoption and impact of E-commerce in rural China: Application of an endogenous switching regression model	121
An analysis of farmers’ intention to use green pesticides: The application of the extended theory of planned behavior and health belief model	115
Smart rural futures: Will rural areas be left behind in the 4th industrial revolution?	113
Targeted poverty alleviation and its practices in rural China: A case study of Fuping county, Hebei Province	105
Rural innovation system: Revitalize the countryside for a sustainable development	94
Creating land markets for rural revitalization: Land transfer, property rights and gentrification in China	92
Analysis of rural economic restructuring driven by e-commerce based on the space of flows: The case of Xiaying village in central China	79
The geography of poverty: Review and research prospects	77
Farmers' perceptions of climate change and adaptation strategies in South Africa's Western Cape	76
Definitions, measures, and uses of rurality: A systematic review of the empirical and quantitative literature	70
Rural revitalization of Xiamei: The development experiences of integrating tea tourism with ancient village preservation	69
The spatial aggregation of rural e-commerce in China: An empirical investigation into Taobao Villages	68
Farm size and agricultural technology progress: Evidence from China	64
How does the rural settlement transition contribute to shaping sustainable rural development? Evidence from Shandong, China	61
Australian farmers left behind in the digital economy – Insights from the Australian Digital Inclusion Index	61
Hollowed out Heartland, USA: How capital sacrificed communities and paved the way for authoritarian populism	61
Community-driven social innovation and quadruple helix coordination in rural development. Case study on LEADER group Aktion Österbotten	60
An integrated conceptual framework for the study of agricultural cooperatives: from repolitisation to cooperative sustainability	56
The impact of land consolidation on rural vitalization at village level: A case study of a Chinese village	56
Effects of on-farm diversification strategies on smallholder coffee farmer food security and income sufficiency in Chiapas, Mexico	55
Local place identity: A comparison between residents of rural and urban communities	55
Study on spatial tropism distribution of rural settlements in the Loess Hilly and Gully Region based on natural factors and traffic accessibility	54
Research methods in rural studies: Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods	52

E-commerce and the transformation of the rural: The Taobao village phenomenon in Zhejiang Province, China	52
How do we enact co-innovation with stakeholders in agricultural research projects? Managing the complex interplay between contextual and facilitation processes	52
Multi-objective spatial reconstruction of rural settlements considering intervillage social connections	49
Farmland landscape fragmentation evolution and its driving mechanism from rural to urban: A case study of Changzhou City	48
Digital revolution and rural family income: Evidence from China	48
Livelihood resilience and the generative mechanism of rural households out of poverty: An empirical analysis from Lankao County, Henan Province, China	48
Identification of the human-land relationship involved in the urbanization of rural settlements in Wuhan city circle, China	48
Neglected idle rural residential land (IRRL) in metropolitan suburbs: Spatial differentiation and influencing factors	47
Agroforestry transitions: The good, the bad and the ugly	46
Entrepreneurship and innovation in Africa's artisanal and small-scale mining sector: Developments and trajectories	46
Governing agricultural innovation: A comprehensive framework to underpin sustainable transitions	46
Imprecision farming? Examining the (in)accuracy and risks of digital agriculture	45
Changing priorities, shifting narratives: Remapping rural livelihoods in Africa's artisanal and small-scale mining sector	45
Gambling in the garden: Pesticide use and risk exposure in Ugandan smallholder farming	44
Robot-ready: How apple producers are assembling in anticipation of new AI robotics	44
The impacts of land fragmentation on irrigation collective action: Empirical test of the social-ecological system framework in China	44
Disruptive innovation in agriculture: Socio-cultural factors in technology adoption in the developing world	43
Co-evolution of technology and rural society: The blossoming of taobao villages in the information era, China	43
Will social capital affect farmers’ choices of climate change adaptation strategies? Evidences from rural households in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China	43
Evolution and transformation mechanism of the spatial structure of rural settlements from the perspective of long-term economic and social change: A case study of the Sunan region, China	42
Agricultural cooperatives contributing to the alleviation of rural poverty. The case of Konjic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)	42
Evolution of cultivated land fragmentation and its driving mechanism in rural development: A case study of Jiangsu Province	41
Association between mental health and community support in lockdown communities during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from rural China	41
Role of social networks in building household livelihood resilience under payments for ecosystem services programs in a poor rural community in China	41
Income effect of rural E-commerce: Empirical evidence from Taobao villages in China	40
How digitalisation interacts with ecologisation? Perspectives from actors of the French Agricultural Innovation System	39
Transitions in rural settlements and implications for rural revitalization in Guangdong Province	39
Key actors in community-driven social innovation in rural areas in the Nordic countries	38
Implications of the digital divide on rural SME resilience	38
Co-designing a smartphone app for and with farmers: Empathising with end-users’ values and needs	38
The impact of the land certificated program on the farmland rental market in rural China	37
The promised land? Exploring the future visions and narrative silences of cellular agriculture in news and industry media	37
Definitions of “rural” and “urban” and understandings of economic transformation: Evidence from Tanzania	37
The assessment of rural development: Identification of an applicable set of indicators through a Delphi approach	37
Comprehensive land consolidation as a development policy for rural vitalisation: Rural In Situ Urbanisation through semi socio-economic restructuring in Huai Town	36
Building agroecology with people. Challenges of participatory methods to deepen on the agroecological transition in different contexts	36
A framework for recognizing diversity beyond capitalism in agri-food systems	36
Growing algorithmic governmentality: Interrogating the social construction of trust in precision agriculture	35
Mentoring entrepreneurship in a rural territory – A qualitative exploration of an entrepreneurship program for rural areas	35
The rural exodus of young people from empty Spain. Socio-educational aspects	35
County-rural revitalization spatial differences and model optimization in Miyun District of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region	35
Dying villages to prosperous villages: A perspective from revitalization of idle rural residential land (IRRL)	35
Gender and the environmental concerns of young farmers: Do young women farmers make a difference on family farms?	34
Peasant households’ land use decision-making analysis using social network analysis: A case of Tantou Village, China	34
Rural attraction: The spatial pattern and driving factors of China's rural in-migration	34
Black Ecologies, subaquatic life, and the Jim Crow enclosure of the tidewater	34
What to do with the farmland? Coping with ageing in rural Thailand	34
Automatic milking systems and farmer wellbeing–exploring the effects of automation and digitalization in dairy farming	34
Sensemaking and the influencing factors on farmer decision-making	34
Social movements and institutional change in organic food markets: Evidence from participatory guarantee systems in Brazil and France	34

Does the Common Agricultural Policy enhance farming systems’ resilience? Applying the Resilience Assessment Tool (ResAT) to a farming system case study in the Netherlands	34
Mapping the research domains on work in agriculture. A bibliometric review from Scopus database	33
Does land tenure fragmentation aggravate farmland abandonment? Evidence from big survey data in rural China	32
Understanding farm generational renewal and its influencing factors in Europe	32
The value of cultural ecosystem services in a rural landscape context	32
Rural revival? The rise in internal migration to rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Who moved and Where?	32
Understanding rural system with a social-ecological framework: Evaluating sustainability of rural evolution in Jiangsu province, South China	32
Non-point source pollution in response to rural transformation development: A comprehensive analysis of China's traditional farming area	31
Village fund, village-owned-enterprises, and employment: Evidence from Indonesia	31
The impact of oil palm on rural livelihoods and tropical forest landscapes in Latin America	31
The status of perceived community resilience in transitional rural society: An empirical study from central China	30
‘You can't eat data’?: Moving beyond the misconfigured innovations of smart farming	30
Assemblage and the ‘good farmer’: New entrants to crofting in scotland	30
Rural communities as a context for entrepreneurship: Exploring perceptions of youth and business owners	30
Coastal transitions: Small-scale fisheries, livelihoods, and maritime zone developments in Southeast Asia	30
Demystifying the geography of income inequality in rural China: A transitional framework	30
Peripheries within economic geography: Four “problems” and the road ahead of us	30
Mobile phones and women's empowerment in Maasai communities: How men shape women's social relations and access to phones	29
Rural vitalization promoted by industrial transformation under globalization: The case of Tengtou village in China	29
Agroecological break out: Legumes, crop diversification and the regenerative futures of UK agriculture	29
From conversion to conservation to carbon: The changing policy discourse on mangrove governance and use in the Philippines	29
Gendered division of labour and “sympathy” in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Prestea-Huni Valley Municipality, Ghana	28
Evolution of rural settlement in an inland nonmetropolitan region of China at a time of rapid urbanisation: The case of Gongyi	28
New perspectives on the agriculture–migration nexus	28
The transformative innovation potential of cellular agriculture: Political and policy stakeholders’ perceptions of cultured meat in Germany	28
Improving the framework for analyzing community resilience to understand rural revitalization pathways in China	28
Beyond government-led or community-based: Exploring the governance structure and operating models for reconstructing China's hollowed villages	28
Smart farming in mountain areas: Investigating livestock farmers’ technophobia and technophilia and their perception of innovation	27
Is small beautiful? Techinical efficiency and environmental sustainability of small-scale family farms under the conditions of agricultural policy support	27
The language of rural: Reflections towards an inclusive rural social science	27
Entrepreneurs of the air: Sprayer drones as mediators of volumetric agriculture	27
The lost rural idyll? Tourists' attitudes towards sustainability and their influence on the production of rural space at a rural tourism hotspot in Northern Ireland	26
What farmers want from mental health and wellbeing-focused websites and online interventions	26
“Of course we care!“: A qualitative exploration of Australian livestock producers’ understandings of farm animal welfare issues	26
The Success Factors of wine tourism entrepreneurship for rural area: A thematic biographical narrative analysis in Turkey	26
Graduate unemployment, artisanal and small-scale mining, and rural transformation in Ghana: What does the ‘educated’ youth involvement offer?	26
Geographies of wellbeing and place attachment: Revisiting urban–rural migrants	26
Social innovation in alternative food networks. The role of co-producers in Campi Aperti	25
Neo-endogenous revitalisation: Enhancing community resilience through art tourism and rural entrepreneurship	25
Innovation resistance and mobile banking in rural Colombia	25
Producing an ideal village: Imagined rurality, tourism and rural gentrification in China	25
Lives in limbo: Migrant integration and rural governance in Sweden	25
Rural revitalization through territorial distinctiveness: The use of geographical indications in Turkey	24
Peri-urban agriculture as quiet sustainability: Challenging the urban development discourse in Sogamoso, Colombia	24
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities	24
Beyond consuming ethically? Food citizens, governance, and sustainability	24
The ‘desk-chair countryside’: Affect, authenticity and the rural idyll in a farming computer game	24
Digital from farm to fork: Infrastructures of quality and control in food supply chains	24
Social acceptance of dual land use approaches: Stakeholders' perceptions of the drivers and barriers confronting agrivoltaics diffusion	24
Selection of targeted poverty alleviation policies from the perspective of land resources-environmental carrying capacity	24
Colombia’s oil palm development in times of war and ‘peace’: Myths, enablers and the disparate realities of land control	24
Is the European countryside depopulating? Case study Moravia	24
Rural transition in the loess hilly and gully region: From the perspective of “flowing” cropland	24
Reconceptualising the rural through planetary thinking: A field experiment of sustainable approaches to rural revitalisation in China	24
Impact of poverty alleviation through relocation: From the perspectives of income and multidimensional poverty	24
Evaluating the sustainability of rural complex ecosystems during the development of traditional farming villages into tourism destinations: A diachronic emergy approach	24
‘Leaving no one unscathed’ in sustainability transitions: The life purging agro-extractivism of corporate renewables	24
Heritage in the making: Rural heritage and its mnemeiosis at Naxos island, Greece	23
Environmental change and the livelihood resilience of coffee farmers in Jamaica: A case study of the Cedar Valley farming region	23
Multi-dimensional superposition: Rural collaborative governance in Liushe Village, Suzhou City	23
Innovation systems and affordances in climate smart agriculture	23
Spatially explicit restructuring of rural settlements: A dual-scale coupling approach	23
‘Ghetto tomatoes’ and ‘taxi drivers’: The exploitation and control of Sub-Saharan African migrant tomato pickers in Puglia, Southern Italy	23
Importance of building bridging and linking social capital in adapting to changes in UK agricultural policy	23
Exchanges among farmers’ collectives in support of sustainable agriculture: From review to reconceptualization	23
Village development framework through self-help-group entrepreneurship, microcredit, and anchor customers in solar microgrids for cooperative sustainable rural societies	23
Spatial Justice and local capability in rural areas	23
Cultivated land quality improvement to promote revitalization of sandy rural areas along the Great Wall in northern Shaanxi Province, China	23
What do we talk about when we talk about milpa? A conceptual approach to the significance, topics of research and impact of the mayan milpa system	23
What's the beef?: Debating meat, matters of concern and the emergence of online issue publics	23
Primary school closures and population development – is school vitality an investment in the attractiveness of the (rural) communities or not?	22
Cultural heritage as rural economic development: Batik production amongst China's Miao population	22
Heritage policy meets community praxis: Widening conservation approaches in the traditional villages of central Greece	22
Rurality as context for innovative responses to social challenges – The role of rural social enterprises	22
The case for integrating household social needs and social policy into the international family farm research agenda	22
Has farmer welfare improved after rural residential land circulation?	22
The end of the urban-rural dichotomy? Towards a new regional typology for SME performance	22
Financial-related psychological factors affect life satisfaction of farmers	22
#farming365 – Exploring farmers’ social media use and the (re)presentation of farming lives	22
The will for terroir: A communicative approach	22

The adoption of conservation agriculture by smallholder farmers in southern Africa: A scoping review of barriers and enablers	22
At the intersection of urbanisation and counterurbanisation in rural space: Microurbanisation in Northern Iceland	22
National specialization policy versus farmers’ priorities: Balancing subsistence farming and cash cropping in Nepal	22
Women's changing productive practices, gender relations and identities in fishing through a critical feminisation perspective	22
Praised, prized, yet penalised: A critical examination of low-wage hiring queues in the global strawberry industry	22
Entwined ruralities: Seasonality, simultaneity and precarity among transnational migrant workers in the wild berry industry	22
HOW does veganism contribute to shape sustainable food systems? Practices, meanings and identities of vegan restaurants in Porto Alegre, Brazil	22
The role of metrics in the governance of the water-energy-food nexus within the European Commission	22
Rural nonfarm sector and rural residents’ income research in China. An empirical study on the township and village enterprises after ownership reform (2000-2013)	21
Community supported agriculture: Setting the research agenda through a bibliometric analysis	21
Agroecology prosumption: The role of CSA networks	21
Place attachment and digitalisation in rural regions	21
Rural gentrification, touristification, and displacement: Analysing evidence from Mexico	21
Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience	21
Patterns of rural collective action in contemporary China: An archetype analysis of rural construction land consolidation	21
Local adaptation strategies to increase or maintain soil organic carbon content under arable farming in Europe: Inspirational ideas for setting operational groups within the European innovation partne	21
Towards reconstructing rural landscapes: A case study of Italian Mongardino	21
Social innovation in rural governance: A comparative case study across the marginalised rural EU	21
Developing a framework for radical and incremental social innovation in rural areas	21
Does labour migration necessarily promote farmers' land transfer-in?—Empirical evidence from China's rural panel data	21
Diverse adaptation strategies helped local food producers cope with initial challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic: Lessons from Québec, Canada	21
How Internet usage contributes to livelihood resilience of migrant peasant workers? Evidence from China	21
The introduction of digital technologies into agriculture: Space, materiality and the public–private interacting forms of authority and expertise	21
Digitization as politics: Smart farming through the lens of weak and strong data	20
“Depopulation, community-based tourism, and community resilience in southwest Spain”	20
Variations in the determinants of regional development disparities in rural China	20
Competitiveness of diversification strategies in agricultural dairy farms: Empirical findings for rural regions in Switzerland	20
Evaluation of sustainable agriculture and rural development in agro-pastoral ecotone under climate change: A comparative study of three villages in the Shenfu coalfield, China	20
Resisting the vineyard invasion: Anti-pesticide movements as a vehicle for territorial food democracy and just sustainability transitions	20
Reshaping a farming culture through participatory extension: An institutional logics perspective	20
Evaluating rural viability and well-being: Evidence from marginal areas in Tuscany	20
The impact of entrepreneurs' environmental analysis strategy on organizational performance	19
The impact of poverty alleviation policies on rural economic resilience in impoverished areas: A case study of Lankao County, China	19
Still bleeding: The variegated geographies of austerity and food banking in rural England and Wales	19
Urban-rural mobilities: The case of China's rural tourism makers	19
Do organic standards have a real taste of sustainability? – A critical essay	19
Second homes, amenity-led change and consumption-driven rural restructuring: The case of Xingfu village, China	19
What is holding farmers back? Endowments and mobility choice of rural citizens in China	19
Can employment empower women? Female workers in the pineapple sector in Ghana	19
The complicated gendering of farming and household food responsibilities in northern Ghana	18
Digital multilocality: New modes of working between center and periphery in Switzerland	18
Exploring the synergy between Community Supported Agriculture and agroforestry: Institutional innovation from smallholders in a brazilian rural settlement	18
Gender, decision-making and farm practice change: An action learning intervention in Myanmar	18
Rural community unbound: Trans-locality, rural-to-rural connections and the formation of inter-regional surname associations in China	18
Exploring the link between farmers’ entrepreneurial identities and work wellbeing	18
Why comply? Farmer motivations and barriers in cannabis agriculture	18
Nuanced assessment of livelihood resilience through the intersectional lens of gender and ethnicity: Evidence from small-scale farming communities in the upland regions of Vietnam	18
Amenities and new firm formation in rural areas	18
Who will benefit from big data? Farmers’ perspective on willingness to share farm data	18
Mission impossible? Pursuing the co-existence of viable predator populations and sustainable reindeer husbandry in Finland	18
Different sales channels for different farmers: Local and mainstream marketing of organic fruits and vegetables in Norway	18
Discrete event simulation in livestock management	18
Can extreme events be an opportunity? Depopulation and resilience of rural communities in Central Italy after the 1997 earthquake	18
A quantitative analysis on Romanian rural areas, agritourism and the impacts of European Union’s financial subsidies	18
Bridging social capital as a resource for rural revitalisation in China? A survey of community connection of university students with home villages	18
Social, cultural and spatial imaginaries in rural tourism transitions	17
Supermarket and discounter accessibility in rural Germany– identifying food deserts using a GIS accessibility model	17
Marketing to the foodshed: Why do farmers participate in local food systems?	17
Learning from farmers’ experiences with participatory monitoring and evaluation of regenerative agriculture based on visual soil assessment	17
Securitising uncertainty: Ontological security and cultural scripts in smart farming technology implementation	17
Exploring dairy farmers’ quality of life perceptions – A Swiss case study	17
Antibiotic stewardship and its implications for agricultural animal-human relationships: Insights from an intensive dairy farm in England	17
Immigration and integration in rural areas and the agricultural sector: An EU perspective	17
Governing Farmers through data? Digitization and the Question of Autonomy in Agri-environmental governance	16
The importance of artisanal and small-scale mining for rural economies: Livelihood diversification, dependence, and heterogeneity in rural Guinea	16
Can a ‘good farmer’ be nature-inclusive? Shifting cultural norms in farming in The Netherlands	16
Learning to eat from others: Does nutritional information acquired from peers affect nutrition intake?	16
Who are to support the aged in rural China? The study of people's willingness to purchase socialized care service and its influencing factors	16
Developing rural insights for building age-friendly communities	16
Diverse values of urban-to-rural migration: A case study of Hokuto City, Japan	16
The role of the expert knowledge broker in rural development: Renewable energy funding decisions in Greece	16
Agroecological education for food sovereignty: Insights from formal and non-formal spheres in Brazil and Spain	16
Post-Soviet smallholders between entrepreneurial farming and diversification. Livelihood pathways in rural Moldova	16
Antecedents and consequences of sustainable development in agriculture and the moderator role of the barriers: Proposal and test of a structural model	16
Public transport-disadvantaged rural areas in relation to daily accessibility of regional centre: Case study from Slovakia	16
Embedding food in place and rural development: Insights from the Bluefin Tuna Cultural Festival in Donggang, Taiwan	16
Finnish dairy farmers’ perceptions of justice in the transition to carbon-neutral farming	16
Exploring the differences between coastal farmers’ subjective and objective risk preferences in China using an agent-based model	16
Rural development pressure and “three-stay” response: A case of Jinchang City in the Hexi Corridor, China	16
Entrepreneurship and the formation mechanism of Taobao Villages: Implications for sustainable development in rural areas	16
Vernacular or modern: Transitional preferences of residents living in varied stages of urbanisation regarding rural landscape features	16
Enterprise hubs as a mechanism for local economic development in rural areas	16
Participatory assessment of critical thresholds for resilient and sustainable European farming systems	16
The domestication triangle: How humans, animals and technology shape each other – The case of automated milking systems	16
From Land Consolidation and Food Safety to Taobao Villages and Alternative Food Networks: Four Components of China's Dynamic Agri-Rural Innovation System	16
Recognising the value of volunteers in performing and supporting leadership in rural communities	15
Understanding diversity in farmers’ routinized crop protection practices	15
Theoretical and practical research into excavation slope protection for agricultural geographical engineering in the Loess Plateau: A case study of China's Yangjuangou catchment	15
Refugee entrepreneurship in the agri-food industry: The Swedish experience	15
Why farmers perceive the use of e-government services as an administrative burden: A conceptual framework on influencing factors	15
Drivers of the peasant households’ part-time farming behavior in China	15
Analysing the efficiency of diversified farms: Evidences from Italian FADN data	15
‘It's cheaper than a dead cow’: Understanding veterinary medicine use on dairy farms	15
The emergence of social innovation in rural revitalisation practices: A comparative case study from Taiwan	15
Animal welfare and cow-calf contact-farmers’ attitudes, experiences and adoption barriers	15